Objective

To become a leading professional by way of innovative technical skills and identifying rooms for improvement and implementing the actions

Major roles in current and previous jobs
 Creating Four Years of Business Plan for LNG Manufacturing Unit
 Creating Work Plan and Budgeting for four years for LNG Manufacturing Unit
 Tracking and Gap measurements for Volumetric Downtime and Vulnerable for LNG Manufacturing Unit
 Operations Reliability Assessment for LNG Manufacturing Unit to Asses the performance of LNG Assets and Sales Gas asset
 Screening , election and Budgeting for Asset Team Opportunity List
 Focal point for Ras Gas Manufacturing for 7th Sense Management initiative for Business control
 Develop engineering change packages and monitor the execution of engineering change activities. Ensure technical standards are maintained and that jobs are closed out and recorded in the CMMS.
 Work in conjunction with facility personnel to identify long-term maintenance and resolve operability issues including associated budgetary impacts.
 Understand the regulatory regime and design standards applicable to hydrocarbon Operations
 Mentor the Process Engineer roles, and provide functional guidance to other discipline engineers/operations personnel as required.
 Review the P&ID, rocess calculation works Simulation results provided by the Process Engineers for new projects
 Providing advice for the ReHazop activities for action close outs(by referring to proper API standards and ASME standards)
 Opex and Capex monitoring, KPI monitoring of the asset. Risk Coordination for the Asset. RCFA Coordination and Volumetric Down time Improvement
 Conducting RCFA’s, Meridium installation and preparing charts , iagrams and parito analysis for Reliability and volumetric downtime analysis
 Established processes for improvement of Plant performanceConducted Conceptual design risk analysis for new designs, Project Risk Analysis for new projects

Skills and major accomplishment

 Overall nineteen years of experience in Gas processing, LNG and Petrochemical in process engineering and Asset Management



• Commissioned two petrochemical plants comprising of distillation columns, pumps, furnaces, reciprocating compressors, driers.
• Business plan, orkplan and Budgeting, Capital expenses tracking and Opex tracking and improvement for Manufacturing(LNG) business
• Provided technical support for detailed engineering.
• Provided technical solutions for improvement of unit operations.
• Provided technical solutions for distillation column operations in petrochemical and gas plants.
• Provided technical support for molecular sieve loading in gas plant.
• Provided technicalsupport for new designs in gas processing plant.
• Provided technical support for controller tuning and control philosophies.
• Problem solver for slug catcher removal facilities/production error fixing/separator level control problems/furnace efficiency improvement.
• Adopted Energy saving methodologies.
• Provided suggestions for costing of the products.
• Procedure creation for pestart up, tart up and commissioning.
• Monthly mass balance report preparation for finance, nergy loss management for gas processing plants(to an accuracy of 99. 97%)
• Developed operating guidelines and trained operators for operation.
• Conducted periodical auditing of plant performance with shells bench marking exercise.
• Audit against the commercial plant targets.
• Developed the strategies to improve the gap like improvement of propane and butane production.
• Developed Process safety and risk management program for the company.
• Provided Process engineering support to Turnarounds.
• Provide technical support for process inspection.
• Process engineering support to small projects and conceptual design.
• Conducted Hazop study for the new designs.
• Simulation experience, model creation in HYSIS, CON software
• Conducted SIL study for the Plant
• Conducted RCFA for the Major trips and Volumetric Down time Improvement activities and Reliability Improvement activities

Education details:

• Bachelor of chemical engineering, 991, nnamalai University, India.
Secured first ***** puter skills:

Good knowledge in MS word, xcel, ower point, otus applications


Work experience

1. 2007- till date – Ras Gas Company Ltd. , atar:Process Engineering Specialist(LNG Manufacturing)

o KPI Improvement for the LNG Manufacturing Unit
o Surveilance program implementation for LNG units
o Process engineering evaluation on equipment performance
o Process engineering evaluation for unit operations including compressors and turbines
o Shutdown job screening
o Reliability, Availability, Capacity Utilization Assessment and Improvement
o Business Plan Preparation for the Plant
o Contracts related to the asset
o Capex and Opex Monitoring
o Risk Reduction of the Plant
o Process Engineering coordination for Design Improvement activities
o Training coordination for Engineers and Operations Personnel
o Business Process Improvement
o Compilation of Asset Issue register









Achievement
 Weekly Volumetric downtime measured and Improvement areas identified and improved(Reliability Improved to 99% and Capacity Utilization went upto 100 %)
 New technology evaluation carried out
 Process advisory notes issued for operational issues
 Plant optimization initiative carried out
 Resolved foaming issues in AGR absorber
 Carried out periodical LNG turbines and compressor performance evaluations and improvements implemented


Training Obtained:

• Tier 1 Leadership training By Simul, Canada
• Strategic Leadership training By Simul, anada
• Level 1 Emergency response training
• Steven Covey’s 7 habits of Successful people
• Art of Business planning
• Site basic training in fertilizer and fine chemicals plant.
• DCS training on Yokogawa , Tata honey well DCS system and Foxboro
• Training on energy audit.

• Training on Process design calculations


1. 2004–2007-Petronas gas bhd, ertih, alaysia:Process technologist, PPB

Roles and responsilities:

• Providing technology solution for process improvement and specifically product recovery unit which has distillation columns.
• Provided technical support for bad actors.
• Providing mass balance data for finance accounting and energy loss management.
• Providing technical support for furnace efficiency improvement.
• Providing technical support for short term TA acitivities.
• Providing technical support for new designs and design reviews.
• Providing technical support for energy loss management.
• Procedure creation for prestart up and some operations according to design requirements.
• Simulation study for new design.
Achievements
• The recommendation on improvement in dethaniser column made a good reduction in propane carryover and steam reduction in the deeethaniser column(cost saving 302K RM per annum).
• Strategies to improve trips in furnaces
• Improvements made in LPG column by way of implementing new control philosophies which prevented I-pentane carryover.
• Improvements made in Level transmitter and flow transmitter improved the performance which resulted in less trips.
• GPTA meter errors brought down.
• Slug catcher liquid removal facility brought in line which was not working since commissioning which brought a good saving to the company by way of flare loss minimization and condensate recovery.
• Mass balance error brought down to 0%.
• Wet drain header operating procedure created to mitigate the abnormal scenarios.
• Water boots problems identified and rectification plan under progress.
• Areas of improvement in furnace efficiency identified.
• Areas of improvement for interlocks bypass problem identified and procedure created.
• Plant monitoring system created to find out the process upsets.
• Customer complaints resolving.
• Control philosophies of distillation columns modified to prevent the upsets during the operation. (Also tuning is carried out for controllers)

Problems worked on:
• Acid gas removal unit in Gas processing plant optimization.
• Control philosophy modification for LPG column.
• Premature moisture breakthrough on molecular sieves.
• Furnace efficiency /reliability improvements.
• IPF study on interlocks bypass.
• Feed liquid filter efficiency improvement.
• Energy loss management.
• Water boot separator performance.
• Feed gas and feed liquid quality improvement.
• Slugcatcher pump modifications

Training courses conducted:

• Basic principles of controller tuning.
• Basic operation principles of slugcatcher liquid removal facility.
• Basic technology training for technologists.
• Acid gas removal units, roduct recovery units operation.

Papers presented:

 Mass balance using sigmafine---- in RITEM , for intra Petronas OPUs)
 Submitted for approval for OSEA the same paper as mentioned above.
 Operations and Reliability Assessment for Manufacturing Unit in Reliability team


Assessments undergone:

Successfully completed the TPCP assessment. (Consultant, r. Jack Rubin, /s Mecip)







2. ***** -Optimal chemicals Sdn bhd. Kertih, alaysia, peration specialist:

A joint venture of Petronas sdn bhd. , Malaysia and DOW USA. Turnover of more than 1 billion dollars per annum. Manufacturing derivatives of propylene oxide and propylene glycol.


Roles and responsibilities held:

• Commissioning of derivatives plant which involve ethanol amine distillation columns.
• Adviser for operation procedure creation/Prestart up checklist preparation for routine/abnormal operations.
• PSSR, azop activity technical support.
• Loss prevention principle adviser.
• Operations adviser for trouble shooting.
• Technical support for DSR.
• FAT for Fox boro DCS.
• Training the operators on new procedures.
• Flow sheet and P&ID review.

Achievements:

• Commissioned the plant with zero incident, ccident, nd spill and in time.
• Modified the interlocks to prevent hazardous scenarios.
• Created the procedure for tank truck unloading for propylene oxide and first time unloading with zero spills.
• 120 punch list items found and rectified in PSSR.


Trainings Obtained:

• Site basic safety training.
• Basic fire fighting training.
• Handling breathing apparatus training.
• Fox boro DCS operation training.
• Technology training.
• Six sigma training.
• Team building training.

Training courses conducted:

• Basic operation and trouble shooting training for operators on unit operations.


3. ***** -Manali petrochemical Limited. , Deputy Manager (operations)

A subsidiary of SPIC group, a leading manufacturer of fertilizer, petrochemicals, fine chemicals.
The company involved in the production of propylene oxide, propylene glycol and polyol

Roles and responsibilities held:

• In charge of daily production of the plant.
• Technical services activity.
• Small capital projects execution.
• Project coordination and execution monitoring.
• Precommisioning and commissioning of the plant which involves propylene glycol distillation columns.
• Creating ISO 9001 documents and coordination for external audit.
• Insurance audit coordinator.
• Design review for small projects.
• Coordination with detail engineering companies like UHDE for P&ID review, FD review, Design safety review.
• Turn Around coordinator.
• Adviser for energy saving improvement.
• Safety audit coordinator.
• Report writing and analysis of reports. (for management information system).
• ISO 9000 documentation preparation and internal audits.
• Liaison for external inspection agencies like pollution control board, DOE etc. ,
• Preliminary design support (like flow process flow sheet preparation, odeling etc. ,

Achievements:

• Successfully commissioned Propylene oxide plant, propylene glycol plant and polyol plant.
• Suggestions made to improve the propylene glycol column performance improvement.
• Energy audit carried out and steam trap loss and other energy saving measures adopted which brought in good amount of money for the company.
• Poor filtration performance improved by way of adopting new methodologies which saved the filter aid cost and filter down time.
• Introduced new fuel oil additives to increase the fuel efficiency which produced a saving of 5% on fuel consumption.
• Customer complaints brought to nil by way of plant monitoring system adoption.
Training courses conducted:

• Basic technology training for engineers.
• Operation training for operators.

Papers presented:

• Methodologies to be adopted for improving the filter performance.
Strengths:

• Commitment to accomplish the task.
• Informative.
• Adaptability.
Interests:
• New technology study and plant performance improvement.
• New design study.
• Business plans and International exposure for New Business Opportunities
Hobbies:
Playing games, reading motivational and engineering magazines and journals.



Final touch:
If I have been given a chance I will perform the duties to the fullest satisfaction of the management.

Personal details:

o Marital status: Married.
o Number of children: two.
o Nationality: Indian
o Gender: Male